RAZR Says "Insert Sim" or "Check Sim"

Scott en Aztlán <[email protected]> writes:

> I've done a web search for this problem and quite a few people seem to
> have suffered from it but nobody has posted a definitive solution.
>
> I bought a RAZR V3 for my wife about a year ago. It's been working
> fine up until a couple of days ago, when it randomly started saying
> "Insert Sim" (or sometimes "Check Sim"). Cleaning the contacts made no
> difference. The sim card works fine in a spare phone that I had lying
> around (and which my wife is now using).
>
> Before I send this thing back to Motorola for repair, is there
> anything else I can try which might bring it back to life?

You can try cleaning the contacts on
teh SIM with a pencil eraser -- sometimes they oxidize and this cleans
em up.

Failing that take it to a store, try the SIM in another phone. If it
works there, maybe you have a hpone issue. If it won't work in
another phone, then you have a SIM that has gone belly up and the
cingular store can get you hooked up with a replacement sim in a
hurry.

--
Todd H.
http://toddh.net/

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"Scott en Aztlán" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| I've done a web search for this problem and quite a few people seem to
| have suffered from it but nobody has posted a definitive solution.
|
| I bought a RAZR V3 for my wife about a year ago. It's been working
| fine up until a couple of days ago, when it randomly started saying
| "Insert Sim" (or sometimes "Check Sim"). Cleaning the contacts made no
| difference. The sim card works fine in a spare phone that I had lying
| around (and which my wife is now using).
|
| Before I send this thing back to Motorola for repair, is there
| anything else I can try which might bring it back to life?
|
| Thanks!

Same thing happened with mine. My solution was to place a small square of
electrical tape three layers thick on the inside of the battery cover
oriented so that it presses down slightly on the SIM. Haven't had a problem
since.

--
Doug

i had that problem on one of my moto phones and i had to carefully 'lift up'
one of the sim card contacts which for an unknown reason was a hair lower
than the other contacts and obviously not making contact.
the surgery was successful and i never had another sim card problem with
that phone.